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> getting a modem working in that era was a tremendous bitch My "hand-cranked modem" story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576823 https://news.ycombinat
by philsnow 8y ago
> getting a modem working in that era was a tremendous bitch
My "hand-cranked modem" story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576823 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576823
> To this day, whenever the network is slow, I twirl the mouse in little circles subconsciously.
I still do this, it's theraputic
- userbinator 8y agoAlso known as "manually pumping the message loop". I'm almost certain that that program was handling communications events on the same thread as the message pump, and only relying on a very slow timer to move them through. There was probably plenty of such badly-written software back then, because 16-bit Windows was cooperatively multitasked and had no concept of threads. Related article and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625957 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625957 http://web.archive.org/web/20140105042459/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/168702 http://web.archive.org/web/20140105042459/http://support.mic...